Design for Stage Set with a Circular Arcade (recto); Sketch for Stage Set with Circular Arcade (verso)
1698–1765
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of graphite (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)
Dimensions
sheet: 4 5/16 x 3 1/16 in. (10.9 x 7.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1974
Accession Number
1974.606.4
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About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Natali III · 1698–1765
Giovanni Battista Natali III (1698–1765) was an Italian painter active during the eighteenth century, belonging to a distinguished artistic dynasty that extended across several generations in northern Italy. The Roman numeral designation indicates his place within this family lineage of artists, a common circumstance in Italian artistic culture where craft and vocation were frequently passed from ...